I did a search on this forum and was surprised to find only one thread about souvenir cards -- which went exactly nowhere. I collect these for their fine line engravings, often printed from original bank note plates by the BEP or American Bank Note. I'd be interested to see some posts from other collectors. I'll share a few favorites here from my collection.

COTW, wish I could of picked up one of those. Sold them at the last annual show, right?Speaking of the annual show, they said we're probably not going to have one this year. Attendance was down and they barely made anything...Cool note though!

Hawaiian Money Standard Catalog 2nd Edition by Medcalf & Russell, cataloged 7 of the 8 known Republic of Hawaii souvenir cards. They are catalog as 2BN-1 through 2BN-7. The following images is of my Republic of Hawaii collection.

In 1995, the American Bank Note Co. put out a series of five reprints of Hawaiian notes. These are not, strictly speaking, souvenir cards, since they aren't souvenirs of any event. But it's a gorgeous set -- each denomination incrementally larger in size and value.

I meant to keep this thread going, but lost track of it until now. I'm in the process of building a website that will have a gallery of all engraved souvenir cards, so I've been doing a lot of scanning lately. Here are a few of the nicer numismatic cards.

Quote:I meant to keep this thread going, but lost track of it until now. I'm in the process of building a website that will have a gallery of all engraved souvenir cards, so I've been doing a lot of scanning lately. Here are a few of the nicer numismatic cards.

Quote:These are copies of engravings from notes, no? They're not actually impressed from plates, are they?

Yes, these are nearly all printed from original plates. On some cards, like the spider press cards that were hand-pulled on demonstration presses at shows, the plate impression is quite apparent. Here's a philatelic card that shows this.

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